By: blasdelf
Also, neither one of those articles, nor any other that I've seen, makes any attempt to answer (a) what the hell happened to these two kids between ages 4-16 to make them end up as killers, or (b) what...
View ArticleBy: Smedleyman
U forgot Seinfeld: "Sounds nice, doesn't really work on that Charles Bronson kinda level. You know what I mean, those movies where his whole family gets wiped out by some street scum. You think you...
View ArticleBy: Mitheral
bardicwrites"White people are crazy." It just appears that way because they all look the same, one nut job taints the whole pool. dwwrites"When I heard about what happened, I just nodded. I thought it...
View ArticleBy: Pastabagel
This thread is probably dead now, but I'd like to point out that yes, I've read dgaicun's link here before, and also this one. You'll note that neither of those articles states that EH or DK were not...
View ArticleBy: lodurr
OK, dgaicun, so I touched a nerve. But you really should grow a tiny bit thicker skin. I'm sorry that you couldn't see I was trying to engage in dialog.
View ArticleBy: frogan
Someone please explain the middle part to me. The lack of a middle part represents the lack of effective parenting that ends up with 13 people dead.
View ArticleBy: batgrlHG
"I have it on good inside authority from a number of schools in three different states that kids are diagnosed with ADD and ADHD on the spot by teachers based on one or two instances of classroom...
View ArticleBy: dgaicun
but I would expect to find a lot of what I would regard as similarities in the upbringing of those disparate children. E.g., if they're growing up in similar millieus, that's an argument for influence,...
View ArticleBy: lodurr
ekpates, perhaps you'd like to enlighten us: Exactly what sciences of mind are not fraudulent? And is it ever appropriate to prescribe drugs for "psychological" problems? 'Cuz I'm left kind of not...
View ArticleBy: raedyn
(he seems to be talking about what would be the opposite of twin studies, shared environment not shared genetics)
View ArticleBy: ewkpates
scalefree, you Freud loving Commie you... From your Breggin page: His 18 books, most written for the general public, attack psychosurgery, electroconvulsive therapy ("shock treatments"), Prozac,...
View ArticleBy: lodurr
Oh, you're talking about twin studies (and their ilk). I understand now. I wasn't following your term of art. (Which is a little counter-intuitive, wouldn't you say? After all, it's a non-shared...
View ArticleBy: CwgrlUp
You know what's messed up? That you think a teacher is qualified to diagnose anything. A teacher sees an entire classroom of kids maybe 5 hours a week. On that basis, they can pick out a single kid as...
View ArticleBy: scalefree
ewkpates: if Tom Cruise & Peter Breggin are the leading champions of your position, I'd say it's time to call it a day.
View ArticleBy: Bugbread
lodurr:"You say that life outcomes are more complex than previously supposed, but then you say that you can demonstrate that parental influence isn't a significant part of that complexity? " I'm...
View ArticleBy: dgaicun
lodurr, again type 'shared environment' into pubmed. It's a term used in behavior genetics to describe the effects of shared household environment. I'm not going to go through a tutorial here but if...
View ArticleBy: lodurr
I did read the comment in context. I quoted your whole paragraph. You said no one was talking about what went on in that school. And I say again: You have to be willfully ignoring it not to see that...
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